I normally love Stephanie's reviews but this one just felt a little bit flat. I think because it is clear that she has never watched the show. I'm not sure how much I'm going to enjoy the movie as even watching more than 3 episodes on a DVD seems like overkill but the show is genius. Love it

1) Aqua Teen Hunger Force sucks the big ol' Fat One.

2) ATHF's "absurdly nonsensical" shtick is about 100% ripped-off (or re-hashed, if the same people made it) from the earlier and funnnier Adult Swim show Sea Lab 2021.

3) Unfortunately, Sea Lab also stopped being funny after six or seven episodes. Anyone who still enjoys either show either has a pretty low threshold for amusement or a pretty hellacious cannabis addiction.

stephanie zacharek is old as well as a complete charlatan.

Well I see Rob has trolled on in to give us his witty insight as to our stupidity. In case you didn't know Rob has a "Help me save Don Imus' sorry ass" web site. In the words of the immortal Bugs, "What a maroon".

It's entitled "Sewer Teen Release Spew", and it's main characters are PissPool, LoafPinch and Boil. Nothing much happens as they slooooooowlllyyyyy float around a major urban sewer. Super villains include Rat Bastard, Flush and Undiscovered Cadaver.

Ok...where's my development deal???

i don't think i really care that the people who never watched the show in the first place don't get it, i doubt matt and dave do either. does anyone really believe this movie was made for anyone but the fans of the show?

i do want to say something to the folks commenting that fans of the show are stupid stoners. some people just love animation. i remember being thrilled when cartoon network first went on air, and my thrill doubled when adult swim was created. i am 38, no drugs, mother of a 14-year-old and i have always loved cartoons. i watched cartoons my entire life, and i feel that with the advent of adult swim, they have grown into adulthood with me. it used to be the only way to watch adult-oriented (not sexually adult, just not created for kids) was to rent video from other countries, mainly japan. now i have adult animation on my tv every night IN MY OWN HOME! what a world! a dream come true!

the only thing i worry about in regard to ATHF and by extension, adult swim, edging out into a mainstream vehicle like feature-length films is that the thing that makes it so cool – it's underground cache – will be destroyed. so the reviews by critics who don't know much about the show will either introduce it to an army of real stoners, college students and slackers who will discover how cool it is and ruin it, or hopefully everyone will believe the critics who say it's not that great and the fans can keep it.

i say to stephanie zacharek, don't even look for redeeming qualities! tell everyone it stinks!!!

And I love ATHF. For me, there was no repetition necessary, I loved it at first blush. I could watch Master Shake talk for hours and hours on just about anything and find it amusing.

I first saw it at 26, well after college. I work as a technical editor. And I've never smoked, swallowed, or applied anything not prescribed by a doctor or purchased at a drug store.

So, reading some of the reviews for this film, I've been surprised by the harsh generalizations being thrown out there by critics who don't "get it." I suppose it's easier to conclude that others are idiots rather than recognizing that oneself may be, in fact, an idiot. Or, perhaps more painfully, no longer hip.

Though I realize now that none of the above is really pertinent to Ms. Zacherek's review. Damn.

I'm in the same boat with many of the fans of ATHF. Upon first watching it, I didn't get it at all. I couldn't even pay attention to it because I thought it was so stupid. For some reason or another, though, I watched it a few more times and it was then that the show became funny to me--hysterically funny. I don't know how to explain exactly why it's funny (though there a plenty of theories being tossed around). I just know that it is definitively very funny.

When I watch the Aqua Teens (usually just 2 times a week if I'm lucky), I almost fall off the couch I'm laughing so hard. And this is the only show on TV, that I know of anyway, that can make me laugh this way. So I'm psyched about the movie...

In response to the guy who thinks that only college kids and "druggies" and "junkies" like this show--open up your mind a little bit. I've never been high while watching Aqua Teens nor am I a college student. I'm 26 years old, I work a very respectable more-than-full-time job that helps a lot of people in my community. And I believe that we all can have bright futures if we work to achieve them. *(Admittedly I occasionally smoke a little grass--couple of times a month maybe--but that has nothing to do with my like of the Aqua Teens.)*

Zacharek, I hope you can see this, because I am doing it as hard as I can.

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Nice insights Leucippi

there's no effect the first few times, and then . . .

I haven't seen the picture yet, and while I agree the title isn't all that clever I hope people can get past that.

Stephanie Zacharek sees the non sequiturs, but I'd argue, as someone with a passing familiarity with the tv show, that the relationships are a big part of the appeal. On the show, humor is mined from the interplay between the earnest innocence of Shake and his manipulation by Meatwad, with Frylock often interceding as a strange sort of parental figure. Then there's their surprisingly matter of fact relationship with Carl next door, which suggests that in our society it helps to be outcasts to accept someone like the boorish and unkempt Carl(and vice versa). I hope these relationships aren't lost in the film.

Actually, one of the things that strikes me about ATHF is how it's very much a latter-day Munsters. I always preferred The Munsters to the tv-show version of the Addams family, in part because the Addamses were always preoccupied with how exotic they were, while the Munsters were befuddled by their inability to fit in, as they were sure they were nice normal suburbanites.

The tv show of ATHF has some of that same flavor, and it helps to have some affinity with that stance. If, for example, you think Shake is just stupid instead of likeably sympathetic, you're less likely to like ATHF in general.